Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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Syria’s Constitutional Void: Power Without a Framework
Syria entered 2026 without the constitutional architecture needed to hold its political transition together. More than a year after the…
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Syria is stabilizing, but US help remains vital
The second year of Syria’s transition faced a rocky start this January, with large-scale conflict erupting in the northeast between…
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Iran’s Strategic Standoff with the West and the Risks to Regional Stability
Tensions between Iran and the United States have once again become one of the central elements shaping the security environment…
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The Radicalization of Moderate Islam by MBS
What is occurring in Saudi Arabia is best understood as the restructuring of religion toward this end: religious authority is…
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The United States Should Apply the Arab Spring’s Lessons to Its Iran Response
The uprisings showed that foreign military intervention rarely produced democratic breakthroughs.
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Integration or conflict in northeastern Syria? Ten key points to consider
While Damascus seeks substantive progress on the big files of military, security, and governance integration, recent hostilities and heightened emotions…
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What Drives Iranian Protests? Voices from the Streets
Demonstrations in cities across Iran appear to be panicking the regime, leading to internet blackouts and fears of reprisals over…
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How Damascus and the SDF came to blows in Aleppo — and what might come next
As a senior official in US Central Command made clear when speaking to the author, the challenge now is urgent: “The…
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Iran’s coming reckoning: Regime collapse is likely — democracy is not
In an ideal world, democratic forces inside Iran and supporters outside the country would work in close coordination: internal actors…
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Ankara’s double win: Kurds, Israel, and the new Syria
From Ankara’s perspective, once the SDF issue is settled, a division of influence in Syria — Israel in the south,…
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